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SUBMITTER: Ritson DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5940729 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ritson Dougal J DJ Battilocchio Claudio C Ley Steven V SV Sutherland John D JD
Nature communications 20180508 1
When considering life's aetiology, the first questions that must be addressed are "how?" and "where?" were ostensibly complex molecules, considered necessary for life's beginning, constructed from simpler, more abundant feedstock molecules on primitive Earth. Previously, we have used multiple clues from the prebiotic synthetic requirements of (proto)biomolecules to pinpoint a set of closely related geochemical scenarios that are suggestive of flow and semi-batch chemistries. We now wish to repor ...[more]